(If you can't find your Library folder, use the 'Go' menu with the Option key held down.

Go to the ~/Library/Spelling folder in the Finder and paste these two files into that folder.

Copy the files entitled bg_BG.aff and bg_BG.dic.Inside that will be a list of folders named by ISO language codes. Back in Finder, you'll find a 'libreoffice' folder with a 'dictionaries' subfolder.The full filename should be expanded for you. Type in tar xzf libreoffice, press the Tab key to request command completion.Type in cd ~/Downloads and press Return.From Finder, use the Go > Utilities menu command and double-click on Terminal.app.Download the '' file (where 'VERSION' is the current numerical version of LibreOffice).Go to (note that you may need to find a different site that provides the dictionary you need).macOS can read OpenOffice dictionaries, so in this example we will download an OpenOffice Bulgarian dictionary from the LibreOffice website (the most up to date version of OpenOffice) and install it so that it can be used by most programs on macOS, including Scrivener. The following explains how to add a new dictionary for spelling-checking. Fortunately Apple has made it easy to add new spelling dictionaries that you can download online, so that you should be able to set up Scrivener to use your preferred language for spell-checking.

For instance, no Bulgarian dictionary is provided 'out of the box'. Note, however, that macOS doesn't provide spell-checking dictionaries for all of the languages it supports for the user interface. If this option is selected, the text system will try to determine which language is being used by what you type in the document. By default the spelling and grammar panel will be set to use 'Automatic by Language'.

Choose the language from the pop-up button at the bottom of the panel that appears.īy default this should use the primary language set in your System Settings.

Go to Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Show Spelling and Grammar.

This means that, in general, you can set Scrivener's spell-checking to use any language supported by macOS. Scrivener uses the dictionary and spelling and grammar checking features that are built in to macOS (as opposed to Word, for instance, which uses its own dictionary and spell checker).

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